Torres is a coastal city in the far north of the southern most state in Brazil. We have been working in this city for several years. In the early stages of this church planting effort, we had to move locations multiple times which made growing the church difficult....

Lack of adequate food, education, and medicine combined with exploitation and a fallen worldview together trap families in a downward spiral of hopelessness. While these may seem to be overwhelming obstacles, we at Living Bread Ministries have a proven track record of...

Phanatnikhom, Thailand Somchai was born in a broken family. He first met his mom when he was 15 years old. In his early years of life, he lived with his grandmother, then grew up in a Buddhist temple. He was involved in a gang and had to run away from home. He met...

Huatanon Ministry, Thailand Karom is 43 years old. He came from a family that did not have faith in Jesus. When he was 15 years old, his mom and dad separated, and he moved to Bangkok. Five years later, he was hired by a construction company in Singapore and worked...

We believe in continued education as a vital piece of equipping our indigenous church planters. As many pastors know, one of the best resources for preaching and teaching the good news is a solid theological library. Unfortunately, for many of our church planters...

One of the great joys of our ministry is getting to support our church planters' specific gifts and dreams for outreach ministry. In Thailand, and a couple of our church plants in Brazil as well, this has included free music lessons as a form of outreach. Not only do...

There is nothing we love more than seeing church plants thrive and plant churches of their own. A recent example of this is taking place in Thailand at The Promise Church, led by LBM Thailand board member SomChai. SomChai has been discipling a man named Karom, who...

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When Patrick in Bárbara launched Living Bread Ministries in 2004 they had to embrace poverty. For several years their family lived well below the poverty level, diverting everything they could into sparking a church planting movement among the global poor. This is the encouraging story of how the Lord sustained them and ultimately established our comprehensive church planting ministries in South America and Southeast Asia.